150 Years of Canada

Ursula LehmkuhlElisabeth Tutschek (Editor)

150 Years of Canada

Grappling with Diversity since 1867

2020,  Diversity / Diversité / Diversität,  Band 5,  254  pages,  paperback,  32,90 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-4124-8

With contributions by
Marie-Eve BeaulieuCharles BlattbergPaul CarlsSarah HenziJane JensonWolfgang KlooßGillian Lane-MercierPierre LavoieUrsula LehmkuhlLaurence McFallsNikolas SchallLisa SchaubElisabeth Tutschek

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On July 1, 2017, Canada celebrated the 150th anniversary of Confederation. The nation-wide festivities prompted ambiguous reactions and contradictory responses since they officially proclaimed to celebrate “what it means to be Canadian.” Drawing on the analytical perspectives of Diversity Studies, this fifth volume of the “Diversity / Diversité / Diversität” series explores the repercussions of “Canada 150’s” focus on identity. The contributions touch upon issues of Canada’s French and English dualism; of its settler colonial past and present and the role of Indigenous Peoples in Canada’s identity narrative; of Canada’s religious, cultural, ethnic and racial diversity; and of the challenge of forging a “Canadian” identity. The authors analyze these and other problems arising from the tensions between identity and diversity by empirically addressing topics such as multicultural memories, Canadian literary and political discourses, Métis history, Canada’s Indigenous peoples, Canada’s official federal discourse on language and culture, and Canada’s evolving citizenship regimes.

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